Saturday, 27 July 2019

A Barwick Primary School teacher was on Tuesday hauled
before a Guruve magistrate to answer charges of performing indecent acts with a
young person. This follows protests which broke out at the school in Mvurwi
after angry parents stormed the premises to inquire on the sexual abuse case in
which he is being accused of indecently assaulting four girls.

The suspected paedophile, acting headmistress and two other
staffers were allegedly assaulted when the parents turned violent.

Hilton Mapfunya (62) who appeared before Guruve magistrate
Mr Artwell Sanyatwe was granted a $100 bail and will be back in court on the
5th of August 2019.

Prosecuting Mr Carson Kundiona told the court that Mapfanya
who is the class teacher of the complainant an 11year old girl would call her
to his desk where he would be sitting and caress her buttocks and thighs on
unknown dates and on several occasions during the period extending from May
2014 to July 2019.

He said in June 2019 on a date unknown to the minor, she
told her three classmates about the alleged abuse and on the 14th of July at
about 1800 hours she reported the matter to her aunt Thandiwe Makuyana who
proceeded to report the matter to the police. Herald